Dickerson confirmed that his employment ended Monday morning when he met with Jumoke board president Raymond Bell and Jumoke's new executive director, Troy Monroe, who informed Dickerson he was no longer needed at the school. A lawyer for the government-subsidized Jumoke Academy also attended the meeting.

Someone should be looking into why the principal left abruptly in the middle of the school year. It is my understanding that her and Troy worked together at IMS. Someone should also be looking at Troy's tenure at IMS. I have it on very good authority that he totally sucked wind there. He...

"I thanked him for his service and wished him the best of luck," Monroe said Tuesday. "It's unfortunate, but we need to move on and make progress for the benefit of our children."

Dickerson, 33, had served as Jumoke's executive director since last July under the charter school's yearlong "fellowship" training program. His salary was $85,000, according to Jumoke's memorandum of understanding with Dickerson, who previously worked as a consultant in Washington, D.C.

While his term as Jumoke's executive director fellow officially ended on June 30, Dickerson remained in a leadership role for several more weeks at the charter school that his grandmother founded in 1997.

State Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor notified Dickerson on July 18 that he was placing Jumoke Academy on a 60-day probation following a Courant report that documents were being shredded in one of the charter school's buildings, despite an ongoing state probe into Jumoke's finances, operations and ties to the charter school operator FUSE. Jumoke fired FUSE as its management group July 11.

On July 25, Pryor sent a terse letter to Bell outlining conditions of the probation, including a mandate that the charter school organization "immediately begin a search for a new Executive Director." Pryor, a strong supporter of Jumoke and FUSE until recent revelations about Sharpe, also criticized the board's "ineffective leadership."

That same day, the Jumoke board hired Monroe — FUSE's former academic director and acting co-CEO — as the interim executive director in charge of overseeing Jumoke's three public charter schools in Hartford that receive millions in state grants. State education officials said they still expect Jumoke to conduct a competitive search.

Monroe, who has been a school administrator in Manchester and Middletown, said Tuesday that he evaluated Jumoke's leadership team and Dickerson's credentials before deciding "there was no need to have two executive directors serving in a similar capacity."

At a meeting Monday evening for Jumoke families and staff, Monroe referred to "changes" underway and said that Jumoke was cooperating with the investigation commissioned by the State Board of Education.

"Jumoke's going to be OK," Monroe told the group. "We're going to be better. We're going to be stronger."

Dickerson attended the school meeting, standing quietly in the Jumoke gymnasium.

The state probe began after The Courant revealed that Sharpe, Dickerson's uncle and the son of Jumoke founder Thelma Ellis Dickerson, falsely claimed to have a doctoral degree and was incarcerated about two decades ago on embezzlement and conspiracy convictions.

Sharpe had led Jumoke Academy as its chief executive officer since 2003 and founded FUSE, or Family Urban Schools of Excellence, in 2012. He was FUSE's CEO until his resignation June 21.

HARTFORD — The Jumoke Academy charter school organization, now facing a state probe into allegations of nepotism, directed more than a million dollars in construction work to the husband of one of its executives, a Courant investigation has found.

HARTFORD — After a terse threat of action from city school officials, a lawyer for Jumoke Academy has argued that the charter school group is not responsible for the 19 desktop computers and other equipment reported missing from Milner School.

HARTFORD — The city school system has demanded that the Jumoke Academy charter school organization return nearly $40,000 worth of technology and equipment identified as missing from Milner School this year — or risk being reported to law enforcement.

HARTFORD — Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced Monday that Stefan Pryor, his controversial state education commissioner, will leave by January and is "actively seeking new professional opportunities'' — a move that critics branded as an election-year bid by Malloy for teachers' votes.

HARTFORD — At least a dozen former FUSE employees, including embattled CEO Michael M. Sharpe, have applied for unemployment benefits and named the government-subsidized Jumoke Academy charter school as their former employer.

As federal investigators pressed Tuesday to obtain the state education commissioner's emails, the Jumoke Academy charter school group acknowledged that the former executive at the center of a growing education scandal regularly missed rent payments while living in one of its buildings.

The Hartford charter school operator FUSE, facing a state investigation and the loss of school management contracts in Connecticut, has now been pulled from an elementary school in Baton Rouge that it was set to open next month, Louisiana education officials said.